By Antonio Trampus – How did Gaetano Filangieri connect the pursuit of happiness with good laws and individual rights? This post traces the Neapolitan thinker’s engagement with the American Revolution and explores why education, liberty, and trustworthy institutions remain essential to public wellbeing.
By Francesca De Rosa — For Gaetano Filangieri, a law was to be judged not by the order it maintained but by the lives it made possible, and in Book IV of the Science of Legislation the path to citizenship began, unexpectedly, with the body. Discover how physical, moral and intellectual education became a public duty in his vision of happiness, and why the questions it raised about health, equality and the limits of state power are still with us.
By Amedeo Arena — From the Italian thinkers who inspired America’s founders to the Fulbright Program, a shared Enlightenment heritage connects Italy and the United States. Discover how ideas of liberty, equality, and public happiness have sustained a transatlantic conversation for 250 years.